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by sammyo 10y ago
I had a single very useful use case. I needed to pick up someone when a famous trial recessed, parking close was impossible, phones were not allowed for most observers. Monitoring the twitter feed of a single journalist provided an accurate
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by sammyo 10y ago
But this is just wrong. Virtually the only accidents were people rear ending a stopped car at a red light. The current google cars are probably improving the general driving safety.
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by sammyo 10y ago
There was an increase in boats hitting buoys when GPS became common, out on the water there really is very little traffic so setting an autopilot is often practical, but if you set a waypoint exactly on the coordinates of a buoy and forget
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by sammyo 10y ago
There perhaps should be a highly regulated frequency that is used for "Emergency - stopping dead now". With some localized physical coordinates (GPS possibly being the wrong granularity) so all within a certain radius know to imme
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by sammyo 11y ago
I've seen that usage a fair number of times, usually in discussions relating to some definition of "american" and why that does not include everyone in both North and South America. For instance is a Guatemalan not an America
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by sammyo 11y ago
The issue with a narrow specialty in Tech is that the lucrative niche can evaporate almost overnight.
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by sammyo 11y ago
Sincere Thanks. If five years later you have a "unicorn" business perhaps a substantial monetary token of appreciation would be appropriate.
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by sammyo 12y ago
I looked at it due it's consolidation of weather records with fields. Not totally impressed with the implementation but there could be significant value in analysis of larger areas, catching disease spread early or tracking pest migrat
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by sammyo 12y ago
What happens to AirBnB when the the NYC hosts file a class action suit to recover the 33 Million? Found a very inexpensive Brooklyn AriBnB for one night JFK run and it was clearly a hostel for international students. At least six beds in th
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by sammyo 12y ago
There are actors that grew up in many different countries you have seen in movies that pass just fine as americans. But it's impractical for most folks to work with a dialect coach for years, but it clearly is possible. And outside of
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by sammyo 13y ago
Or Second Life...
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by sammyo 13y ago
This looks quite interesting and quite topical to a discussion I had just yesterday during an interview. I almost clicked the installer but hesitated. A link that discusses the impact and especially any issues if/when your product was
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by sammyo 13y ago
I do wonder if these stories are distributed to the Arabic editions.
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by sammyo 13y ago
Slide and drag is hitting the technological useability sweet spot, where the mouse was at last 'generation'. Haptic (force feedback), 3D mouse, a variety of trackballs, are all available, all suffer from missing the spot, either d
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by sammyo 13y ago
Wow, your hybrid optical illusion at the end of the article was fascinating, quite spooky/surprising.
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by sammyo 13y ago
Be sure to rinse it several times, makes a big difference.
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by sammyo 13y ago
In addition to the specific type of dance, also take ballet technique classes. While it's unlikely to reach a performance level of ballet in one year the core physical habits that are trained carry over to all types of dance. Check the
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by sammyo 13y ago
Using a different browser than the one used by the friend would prevent this from occurring.
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by sammyo 13y ago
For years Scott Adams had serious letters accusing him of secretly being an employee in 'their' workplace and just transcribing meetings.
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by sammyo 13y ago
Unspecified but probably an exothermic reaction that would release a large puff of smoke.
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by sammyo 13y ago
I'll interject one more 'done it' anecdote. The document processing system I've been working on for several years had several libraries in C. Very few issues compared to the general logical bugs. Integrating the Judy arrays library was a hu
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by sammyo 14y ago
Cell service was really bad for an hour after the explosion. My wife has an older clamshell phone that seemed harder to connect I expect due to the absence of newer 3G frequencies. Not getting a signal make one very nervous at a time like t
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by sammyo 14y ago
I was two blocks away from the bombing for a couple hours and no one was panicking, sad perhaps but quite calm.
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by sammyo 14y ago
Monetary float.
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by sammyo 14y ago
Well one answer is that they didn't. Infection was a major cause of death. When you see a brutal dentist scene in a historical film it gives shivers, the missing context is that the patients life was probably being saved.
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by sammyo 14y ago
Just like feature films, the overriding consensus about success or failure is "nobody know anything". Clearly protocols have changed the world, the Gopher protocol was pretty good but HTTP just wiped it out. X.25 was an expensive, molasses
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by sammyo 14y ago
Hermits in treehouses?
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by sammyo 14y ago
Since they cannot perfectly clone the Photoshop(tm) UI it will never seem useful to folks that grew up with and are incredibly facile with the keystrokes behaviour of Photoshop.
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by sammyo 14y ago
If you do the research and are not tied to "the perfect spot" that happens to be on public land, there are (not expensive) remote lots of land for sale where the only problem is access.
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by sammyo 14y ago
Sounds like a huge oportunity for an online escrow business.

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